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East Barsham, Norfolk

Historical Description

Barsham, East, a parish in Norfolk, 2¼ miles N of Fakenham station on the G.E.R. There is a post office at Fakenham; money order and telegraph office, New Walsingham. Acreage, 1194; population of the civil parish, 196; of the ecclesiastical, 456. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Little Snoring, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £630 with residence, in the gift of Lord Hastings. The church is old but good. Henry VIII. walked barefooted from East Barsham to Walsingham, in 1510, to make a votive offering of a necklace. The hall here is a fine specimen of Tudor brickwork, and was erected in the reign of Henry VII.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishEast Barsham All Saints 
HundredGallow 
Poor Law unionWalsingham 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.

Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for East Barsham:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1662-19151662-19151689-19011661-1908


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for East Barsham from the following:


Maps

Online maps of East Barsham are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictNorth Norfolk
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR21
Post TownFakenham

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